The Force is with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: the “Ms. Marvel” director has been tapped to helm a “Star Wars” film. Deadline reports that the script is still being written, and plot details remain under wraps.
Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who is set to make her narrative feature directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story about a world where non-neurotypical people — and their gifts, which include reading people’s secrets by how they fold their arms — are demonized by society.
Two of Obaid-Chinoy’s shorts, “Saving Face” and “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” won Oscars and Emmys. Her feature docs include “Song of Lahore”